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Sigrid Sandström’s Emotional Landscapes
In the year 2000, while she was getting her MFA at Yale, the Swedish artist Sigrid Sandström ran away to Maine for a summer residency at…
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Trump fires all members of Commission of Fine Arts
The White House fired the six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent agency that advises the president, Congress and…
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Bess Wohl and Whitney White on the Radical Relevance of ‘Liberation’
A look into America’s political past, Liberation is also a personal story, inspired by Wohl’s own mother, who worked at Ms. magazine…
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In “Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens,” a Legendary African Photographer Gets His Biggest Showcase Yet
Hand-woven and dyed fabrics, elaborate gold and beaded jewelry, women with hennaed hands and feet, and military men in suits fill the work…
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Welcome to Powder Mountain, Utah’s Skiable New Answer to Storm King
Unlike multi-mountain mega-pass companies like Ikon, under which Snowbird and Alta operate, Hastings introduced a public-private model…
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How This Central Asian Capital Became an Art and Fashion Hotspot
“Bukhara needs more attention, and it would be great to have people coming here every two years, discovering more, and seeing from…
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I’m Not a Carrie, I’m a Cathy
There are, of course, Cathy cartoons that just don’t hold up, effectively encapsulating our lowest societal expectations of women. (Did we…
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A Closer Look at the Magnificent Gerhard Richter Show at Fondation Louis Vuitton
Essentially, Richter spent a lifetime interested in “the relationship we have with reality,” as he has put it, without ever starting with…
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Nicole Wittenberg’s Sweeping Landscapes Take Root at Acquavella
But just as Wittenberg’s DP hero Ballhaus went for image over narrative, she eschews a prescriptive reading of her art. Think of the…
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‘I Just Like Her.’ Ethan Coen and Aubrey Plaza Keep Collaborating in ‘Let’s Love!’
Letting loose wasn’t the only invitation Let’s Love! offered Plaza. During the first week of rehearsals, Coen pulled her aside and asked…
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How Beverly’s, the Art World’s Favorite DIY Bar, Made Its Triumphant Return
A place just as likely to host a zine fair as it is a late-night DJ set or a political meetup, Beverly’s is a 21st-century Cheers for a…
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What Does it Mean to Be a Superhero Now? At the Met Opera, Contemporary Artists Offer Their Answer
Last Sunday, New York’s Metropolitan Opera celebrated not one, not two, but three openings. There was “Behind the Seams: Costuming the…
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Electronic Arts nears takeover by Silver Lake, PIF
Video-game maker Electronic Arts, is in talks to be taken private by a consortium led by Silver Lake Management, Saudi Arabia’s Public…
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Inside the V&A’s Magical New “Marie Antoinette Style” Exhibition
But far from feeling like a cop-out, it makes the pieces here that actually belonged to Marie—on the exhibition labels, these are marked…
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Chloe Wise on the Art of Looking Up
On a sweltering afternoon this past July, I paid a visit to the artist Chloe Wise in her midtown Manhattan studio. “You have great…
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Paolo Roversi Brings His Photographic Magic to New York With a Sprawling Retrospective at Pace
That shruggingly modest nonchalance is typical of Roversi, who is of course a revered imagemaker—yet it’s certainly true that his star…
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Pamela Love Launches Her Own Tarot Deck, The Infinite Door. Here’s What It Told Me
She holds up the second card, which depicts a pink hand being engulfed by a snake as the hand’s five tendril-like wands, for fingers,…
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The Passions of Sally Mann
Editorial rigor is something that is so important with making art. You can make all the art you want, but if you dilute it by putting out…
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Adam Dressner’s Portraits Are for the People
If you’ve got a face, Adam Dressner wants to paint it. Dressner, a former corporate lawyer, has made a name for himself as a self-taught…
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Luke Newton on the “Joy and Despair” of Embodying Lee Alexander McQueen Off-Broadway
At face value, playing Lee McQueen is straightforward enough: baggy jeans, a buzzcut, and a T-shirt get you most of the way there. But to…
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The Audacious Life and Art of Huguette Caland
Huguette Caland, the late Lebanese artist known for her buoyant abstractions of body parts, had to wait until she was 33 years old to act…
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The Cast of ‘Twelfth Night’ and a Bevy of Shakespeare in the Park Alums Toast the Reopening of the Delacorte
[On returning to the stage last year after an 18-year break:] I get so much joy from being onstage. The opportunity has opened up and now…
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10 Standout Acts From This Year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival
A cohort of American comics including Cat Cohen, Jaqueline Novak, and Steven Phillips-Horst cut an inspired swath. Cohen’s Broad Strokes,…
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Alicia Vikander on Making Her London Stage Debut, Battling Mom Guilt, and Life With Michael Fassbender
The Queen’s Wood Cafe in Highgate, London, is one of those formerly secret places in London that used to be known only by locals and is…